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As President Obama would have it, Hassan Rouhani, the new president of Iran, is a moderate. The president is leading Americans to believe that, to borrow Secretary-General Kofi Annan's description of butcher Saddam Hussein, here is a man "with whom we can do business." Well actually....In a September 18, 2013 interview with NBC's Ann Curry, Rouhani was asked whether the Holocaust happened. He replied, "I'm not an historian." Asked about his predecessor's claim that Israel should be wiped off face of earth, Rouhani said "we believe in the ballot box," meaning millions of Palestinians should be allowed to return to Israel and wipe out a Jewish state by outvoting them. Rouhani also talked to Curry about "pressure groups" (nudge, nudge, wink, wink: those Jews) influencing countries like America. But never mind all that. The Obama administration appears positively breathless in anticipation of the New York rollout of "moderate" Rouhani. So this week President Obama reduced his demand on Iran to a fraction of what is actually required to prevent an Iranian nuke. On September 17 he told Telemundo that Iran would have to demonstrate "that it's not trying to weaponize nuclear power." Allowing Iran to move within a trigger finger of such weaponization gives the United States no capacity to stop it before it happens. We don't even have the capacity to verify whether they have weaponized, once we allow them to get too close to it. Israelis are charitably saying, publicly, that Iran is stalling for time. The truth is, President Obama is stalling for time.